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Belfast journalists subjected to unlawful spying cannot claim costs...

The Court of Appeal finds that the Investigatory Powers Tribunal has no power to award costs against Northern Ireland police despite ‘unreasonable conduct’ by the force.

UK surveillance watchdog ‘disappointed’ over government investigato...

The investigatory powers commissioner has raised concerns following failures by some government agencies to follow safeguards in their use of surveillance and covert powers. Sir Brian Leveson said...

Austrian doctors to swap emails and phone calls for encrypted messa...

Hospitals and clinics in Austria are gearing up to replace emails and phone calls with an end-to-end encrypted instant messaging service that promises to speed up communications between medical pro...

UK secrecy over AI in immigration and asylum decisions under fire |...

The government is using AI in “near total secrecy” to police immigration and border crossings and is routinely invoking “national security” to refuse to answer questions on its use of automated tec...

UK secrecy over AI in immigration and asylum decisions under fire |...

The government is using AI in “near total secrecy” to police immigration and border crossings and is routinely invoking “national security” to refuse to answer questions on its use of automated tec...

How Luxembourg built a secure sovereign instant messaging service f...

Luxembourg has big ambitions for its state-backed encrypted messaging service, Luxchat, which offers secure ‘sovereign’ instant messaging for government, citizens and businesses.

UK data watchdog warns Met Police over shadow IT data breach | Comp...

The UK’s data protection watchdog warns of an ‘ongoing failure’ by the Metropolitan Police Service to restrict staff from using unauthorised IT services.

AI tool used in asylum case reviews failing accuracy tests | Comput...

An AI tool introduced to speed up the processing of asylum claims has been found to make errors during Home Office testing. The Home Office introduced the Asylum Case Summarisation (ACS) tool in A...

Journalists subject to unlawful surveillance seek legal costs after...

Two Belfast journalists who were placed under unlawful police surveillance are seeking costs following allegations of “unreasonable behaviour” by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) durin...

AI model developers have ‘no justification’ for failing to comply w...

Large language models must have lawful basis for processing personal data – ‘benefiting humanity’ is not enough, says Information Commissioner’s Office.

UK Supreme Court to decide whether to block ‘trivial’ data protecti...

Businesses are being inundated with trivial AI-generated data protection, say lawyers.

Supply chain cyber resilience: from paper promises to operational r...

UK and Europe at risk from Chinese tech, says security think tank |...

European telecoms and computer infrastructure is vulnerable to hostile state interference with Chinese equipment suppliers such as Huawei and ZTE deeply embedded in parts of Europe’s networks, a re...

UK data regulator restructures amid allegations of ‘toxic’ workplac...

A reimagined structure for the UK data regulator raises questions about the effectiveness of its oversight, as staff continue to express concern over a toxic workplace culture that has taken hold u...